The Water Cooler is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The Water Cooler will be up Monday-Friday in the noon hour.
Today’s question.
QUESTION: If there was one thing you could change about your neighborhood, what would it be, and why?
Talk about it….
Put some trash cans at the grass area @ 7-11 near concord high so the kids who hang out there after school don’t feel obligated to leave their trash in grass.
@DanaEstatesNeighborhoodAlliance make it happen!
I like to have street food vendors (fruits, tamales, and tacos) in my neighborhood because they have the best food.
I’m on the other side of the world this month so can’t look up the info on the business card I got. But drive by Newhall Park on Ayers toward Clayton Rd. The cart will be on a corner of Ayers and a residential street (sorry. don’t know street name). It’s not there every day, but when it is—OH! such great tamales! Also has fruit.
Too many people speeding like nutbags.
Maybe we need speed bumps to try and attempt to slow people down.
They whip around corners and just don’t care.
There’s also some annoying car alarms that go off several times a day.
Most cars don’t slow down much as they go over the bumps. Let’s put more of the dips they used to have. They have them in the old neighborhoods in Pleasant Hill and there are a couple on the street west of Glacier close to Clayton Rd. Those work!
… would like LE re-start patrols on the CCC trail – used to be on motorcycles or bicycles. Ebikes going well above 28mph (class 3 limits)… coming extremely close to pedestrians (it’s an accident waiting to happen) the trail is supposed to be closed sundown to sunrise – there are “questionable characters” on the trail at all times of the night – almost every night (recorded on a trailcam).
I would like to see more garbage being picked up in my neighborhood.
I did notify the city to fix the sidewalk on Laguna Street that needed work to be done and I am seeing the city is working on broken sidewalk. I cannot say the address for security reason.
pros about my neighborhood
Location close to everything
Coms
garbage every where and crime.
I am very sad to find out that the Concord resident died of drowning in the water in Lake Tahoe he a football coach very nice guy I saw on the news this morning. My heart goes out to the family.
The government (My Congressional Representative, Senators, Governor….)
First would be bury the electric lines, with the major flaw in that is less places for birds to perch upon. So, maybe first would be remove the rarely used painted bike lanes.
I live in the Beverely Hills of Cambodia … I would convert the empty lots (trash dumps) into community herb/vegetable gardens.
I wish people wouldn’t use Park Highlands as a motor speedway. Same with Kirker /Ygnacio
Nothing. I already moved out of California…
Not one thing..Clayton!
Same for our Clayton neighborhood.
Only thing is that they would water their lawns otherwise we have a fantastic neighborhood.
Good neighbors, nice street I would do nothing. Lots of dog walkers and kids.
@BERNARDO..…”one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”.
I’ve got one crazy, feral female near where I go to shop & visit.
She lives under a tree in a field.
She wears a heavy jacket even on blazing hot days to protect her from “Demons”.
She does not even look for a private spot to crap & pee, just drops her drawers on the sidewalk or wherever and goes! Cops arrest her once or twice a month then a few days later she’s back.
She screams obscenities at random.
Nobody can seem to find any way to get rid of her (legally).
Ahhh. I used to have a feral creature in my neighborhood too. She would sleep or pass out on our lawn at night. I just reset the sprinkler controller for 10 min an hour from 2am to 7am…
This year there are 2 empty houses on my court. The one at the top has been empty since before Xmas. Yards are well taken care of. The one next to me has been empty (owner death) for over a year and half. Yards not taken care of and no longer has any curb appeal. Keeping my fingers crossed that one will be sold soon.
Hum,…. we have a house at the top of our court too, that was not lived in for 7 + years. The owner passed away and one of her kids owns it now, for the past 2 years and still no one lives there. A hoarder’s house, … right next to us. I do have to say I like the fact it is quiet, but it is falling apart big time and the yard is weedy.
Water, weed, mow, trim and bring in your darn waste cans already. Clearly I have a problem with the cans. LOL
Yes, my neighbors bring their cans as far as their gates but not into their backyards as they are supposed to do. Then many of them are overflowing by the next pickup day.
Replace all the stop signs with yield signs.
Because so many people don’t stop at them anyway and worse yet they don’t even bother to look because they assume you will be looking and slam on your brakes on their behalf.
It’s a California entitlement thing.
Perhaps with yield signs they would be concerned with other cars in their path and consider looking both ways before blasting through.
@The Fearless Spectator
Traffic circles work best. The problem with the couple of traffic circles that we have, is that the pedestrian crosswalk is to close to the circle. As people are starting to speed out of it, or are paying attention to make sure no entitled driver suddenly pulls in front, they can miss seeing the pedestrian on the crosswalk. People also don’t like them because they have to reduce speed.
Yield signs don’t mean a thing for a lot of people, just like zipper lanes. Well, traffic laws don’t mean a thing here in the area, anyway.
Traffic circles are great! We recently spent a month on a road trip around Italy of almost 3,000 km (about 1,800 miles) and there are very few 4 way stops and a lot of traffic circles. Traffic circles really make a lot of sense, as they really keep traffic flowing.
I found the traffic circles in Spain made sense too. It was also a bonus for me as well. I was driving a stck shift for the first time in 25 years.. So not starting from a dead stop was nice
I have an Italian road trip next month……… No reason to say this…just bragging..😺
We had a great time on our Italian road trip. Just watch for the ZTLs!
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Having the residents store their motorhomes, trailers, boats, and other recreational vehicles out of public view.
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Barking dogs all day and night long. Just try to get animal control to come out, good luck.
There are a growing number of electric scooters on our street. Last week some kid was flying down our street going against traffic and he came close to hitting my vehicle. This was at night and the rider had no light or reflective vest. Accident waiting to happen.
-Commute traffic using the neighborhood as a shortcut.
-Parents speeding through the neighborhood as they drop-off and pick-up their children at school/schools.
-Parents dropping their children off at school that use everyone’s garbage cans as their own on garbage day.
-Nightly fireworks for months, both before and after New Year’s Eve and Independence Day.
Not a thing! Neighbors and location couldn’t be better. Been in the same house since 1980 and have only had a couple of neighbors over the years who were less than perfect and they are long gone, thankfully.
What would I change? I would put up a for sale sign in front of my house and hire an out-of-state real estate agent.